Amplitude stable spectrum-sliced supercontinuum sources for DWDM applications

Summary form only given. Supercontinuum (SC) generation is a very attractive way to generate broad spectra. In particular spectrum-sliced SC sources at 1.5 /spl mu/m are of potential interest for dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing systems (DWDM) and networks. In this technique an ultrashort pulse seed generates broad coherent spectra by use of the nonlinear effect in an optical fibre. In this paper we report on experimental and theoretical investigation on amplitude stability of SC spectra. We also present and discuss an amplitude stable 40 ch /spl times/10 Gb/s spectrum-sliced SC source for DWDM applications.